Large-area crack-free single-crystal photonic crystals via combined effects of polymerization-assisted assembly and flexible substrate

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Jinming ^a   Wang, Jingxia ^a   Huang, Yu ^a,b   Liu, Guoming ^a   Wang, Libin ^a,b   Chen, Shuoran ^a,b   Li, Xiuhong ^c   Wang, Dujin ^a   Song, Yanlin ^a   Jiang, Lei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

crack free; large area; photonic crystals; self assembly; single crystal

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC INDUSTRIES; CRACK FREE; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; LARGE AREA; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; SUBSTRATE DEFORMATION;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MONOMERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SCALABILITY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CRACKS;

EID: 84866057619     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2012.38     Document Type: Article

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